Simple DIY Beach Towel Tutorial

Last month was national serger month and we were lucky enough to help celebrate by contributing a project for an ebook put together by Baby Lock. The serger that I use happens to be a Baby Lock brand serger and I am IN LOVE with it. I wasn’t sure that I would ever use or even want a serger but now, after having my own, I use it just as often as I use my sewing machine and wonder what I ever did without it.

So, when we were asked if we wanted to contribute a project I jumped at the chance and put together a super easy tutorial for a beach towel made entirely with my serger. It’s one of those quick 30 minute projects that are fun to make and totally usable.

Here is the tutorial in full:

Everyone (especially my kids) loves over sized towels to take to the beach and to the pool. So today I wanted to show you a simple way to make these over sized towels using just your serger and some wash cloths!

Every season most large stores put out bundles of wash cloths in fun colors at low cost. When they do this in the spring I will scoop up a bundle or two to make these fun towels for the upcoming poolside season.

I like these towels because they are a perfect size to wrap up in after hopping out of the pool or for spreading out on the sand or lawn while you catch a few rays. And with using a serger to stitch the washcloths together it not only makes a fun patchwork pattern but looks as fun on the back side….

….as it does on the front….

To make this towel you will need 15 wash cloth arranged in 5 rows of 3.

Then you simply serge them all together.

To make mine I work in this order:*Serge square 1 to square 2 then square 2 to square 3

*Serge square 4 to square 5 then square 5 to square 6

*Serge square 7 to square 8 then square 8 to square 9

*Serge square 10 to square 11 then square 11 to square 12

*Serge square 13 to square 14 then square 14 to square 15

Now that I have my rows made I need to serge the rows together!

*Serge row A to row B

*Serge row D to row E

*Serge row B to row C

*Serge row C to row D

And you are done!

Now…bring on the water…and a tall glass of lemonade!

-liZ

Simple DIY Beach Towel Tutorial

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